'Smallville,' 2001-2011

'Smallville,' 2001-2011

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The powers were super-strength, super-speed, heat vision, super-breath, super-hearing ... but not flight. Not until the end of the series. The villains were Lex Luthor, Lionel Luthor, Brainiac, Zod, Doomsday, Darkseid, random krypto-freaks of the week. The tone? Portrait of the superhero as a...

The powers were super-strength, super-speed, heat vision, super-breath, super-hearing ... but not flight. Not until the end of the series. The villains were Lex Luthor, Lionel Luthor, Brainiac, Zod, Doomsday, Darkseid, random krypto-freaks of the week. The tone? Portrait of the superhero as a... (The CW)

The powers were super-strength, super-speed, heat vision, super-breath, super-hearing ... but not flight. Not until the end of the series. The villains were Lex Luthor, Lionel Luthor, Brainiac, Zod, Doomsday, Darkseid, random krypto-freaks of the week. The tone? Portrait of the superhero as a...The CW